The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By: Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Grade: B+
As the rebuilding from World War II commences author Juliet Ashton begins a correspondence with the people of Guernsey (several of them anyway) who while under German occupation formed a literary club and discovered books, friendship and a way to go on during the impossible. Told in letters I admit I found this book a lot more moving than I thought.
The Odd Couple
Directed By: Gene Saks
Grade: A
This was my Blind Spot Series pick for April in which I had one requirement: no romance. Also I wanted to watch it early because my movie going mind is swiftly shifting to exactly one track for the next couple of days!
Furiously Happy
By: Jenny Lawson
Grade: A-
So I’ve been super interested in all kinds of “self-help,” “universal energy,” kind of books recently. I actually wound up ending my run with what turned out to be my favorite. I’ve had Furiously Happy on audiobook since 2016 and finally, finally buckled down and finished it.
This tag was created by Emmmasbooks on Youtube. It was originally for books but I pretty much did the same thing writing out some of my favorite television characters and pulling them from a mug and let me tell you… I’m a pretty good matchmaker.
Or perhaps I should have picked some characters that I don’t like.
Circe
By: Madeline Miller
Grade: A
“Humbling women seems to be the chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
Part of me wants to talk in-depth about Circe and another part of me, a very large part, wants to be like, “Yes! It was great! Fantastic! Just read it…”
So I shall do a little of both.
Apparently I’m all about setting myself goals this Spring. I have the Magical Readathon (in which I’m already off the TBR to be honest), my Spring TBR a bunch of personal goals and then as I was reading Bad Feminist I went through and made a list of all the authors whom I’ve always wanted to try.
You know, those authors where you’re forever picking up one of their books and then putting it back until next time? Or telling people oh, yeah I’m going to read her next.
This is my list:
Elsewhere
Grade: A
What happened to legendary aviator Amelia Earhart? Well, she went Elsewhere according to this new graphic novel.
I saw this first on Jesse the Readers Youtube Channel and since I’m an absolute sucker for the Buzzfeed quizzes anyway I thought I’d do it as well. So below the my answers to the Hardest Game of Would You Rather- For Book Nerds
A Quiet Place
Directed By: John Krasinski
Grade: B+
If they hear you. They hunt you.
Which strikes me as a phenomenally bad time to have a baby but whatever.
Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
Grade: A
Roxane Gay has been one of those writers where I’m always like, “I really want to but maybe next time…” When I finally actually looked at Bad Feminist and saw it was a lot about culture and pop culture I jumped at the chance to read it. I’m very much interested in the ways pop culture reflects the state of our world and the way we react to it.
Needless to say there was a lot in this book that I enjoyed.
